are taken from the cyanide bottle. The date, locality and name can be penciled 

 on the outside of the pill box. To cut the circular papers and cotton, take about 

 twenty-five sheets and cut them in squares a little larger than the desired size of 

 your circle. Place these squares between two silver dollars and trim with scissors. 

 Of course the pill boxes can be packed between layers of cotton in a cigar box. 



Robert James Sim, Jefferson, Ohio, ships beetles in capsules such as are used 

 in putting up medicines for horses and cattle. They can be purchased of any 

 druggist very cheaply and of any requisite size up to about four inches in length. 

 If the beetle does not entirely fill the capsule the two ends may be cushioned with 

 lint, tissue-paper, sheet-wadding or other soft substance. Slips of paper containing 

 the name, date and locality can be put in the capsule. Packed in cotton these 

 capsules are ready for shipment. Mr. Sim learned this method from Prof. E. C. 

 Van Dyke, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. 



Cigar boxes and even strong tin boxes are frequently crushed when sent by 

 parcel post, unless there be an outer covering of excelsior about the box. Too 

 much care cannot be taken in preparing specimens for shipment or protecting the 

 package against loss or damage in transit. The safest method is to have two 

 boxes, an outer and an inner one, with plenty of loosely packed excelsior sur- 

 rounding the inner box. 



DISEASES OF LARVAE. 



R. W. Glaser, Bussey Institute of Harvard University, Forest Hills Mass., 

 writes: "I am making the diseases of caterpillars my thesis work here at Harvard 

 under Professor W. M. Wheeler, and would like to know whether in your breed- 

 ing work you ever came across dead flaccid larvae hanging by their prolegs. The 

 interior of such caterpillars is entirely disintegrated and when disturbed they go 

 all to pieces. I have bred thousands of caterpillars and have found this disease 

 in Euvanessa antiopa, Hemerocampa leucostigma, Malacosoma americana and 

 distria and in Porthelria dispar. I should be very grateful to you indeed if you 

 would send me any such material which you might chance to run across from 

 time to time. As to how you had best send me diseased material, the distance 

 from coast to coast is so great that dead specimens would probably reach me in 

 a frightful stage of decomposition. Still, it is best to take a chance and decide 

 later as to the advisability of such a procedure. In case the larvse are dead, just 

 put them in a vial or small box and ship. If they reach me in such a state that 

 I would be unable to determine the organism which causes the disease, I will 

 try to think of some other scheme for shipping. Of course, material which is 

 diseased but still alive ought to flourish long enough if food is placed in the box 

 and a few holes punched in the lid. 



A WORM THAT CARES. 



Ximena McGlashan in "The Canadian Entomologist." 

 Does the worm have care or thought for the adult it is to produce? Many 

 writers assert that there are no signs of sentiment in any of the stages of moth or 

 butterfly existence. They say the mother fly lays her eggs because of natural law, 

 the eggs hatch because they must, the larvae simply live to eat, and the chrysalis, 

 however wonderful, is only a part of the process. That it is all very interesting, but 

 the mother never sees nor cares for her progeny, nor does the offspring care for any- 

 thing but itself. If one were to cross pens in a friendly tilt with these writers, the 



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